Google CEO adds a new calendar feature at Stripe co-founder’s request

Discuss customer support. On Wednesday, Google CEO Sundar Pichai posted on X about Google Calendar’s new function to duplicate occasions — an addition that was particularly requested by Stripe co-founder John Collison final month, additionally via an X post.

On July 5, Collison requested if Google Calendar customers may get a Ctrl-click possibility that may enable them to simply duplicate occasions, just like the function that many native calendar functions have already got. Collison tagged Pichai in his submit on the time.

Whereas customers usually tag corporations and CEOs with on-line suggestions and complaints, you realize you’ve made it when the CEO not solely replies to you, but additionally implements the change you’ve requested for.

That’s the case for Collison, not less than.

Wrote Pichai, “This function is now reside for everybody on Google Calendar on the net — thanks for the suggestion!”

Naturally, some X customers started to poke enjoyable at Collison’s seeming affect by asking him to assist with their very own particular considerations, too.

Joked Field CEO Aaron Levie, for instance, referring to the notoriously congested freeway that runs via Silicon Valley, the place Waymo’s self-driving vehicles at the moment have limited availability, “John, are you able to ask Waymo to work on El Camino via the peninsula? Thanks!”